To Serve and Evict

As the waters closed over the 41 foot Tartan sailboat Spiritus, her captain closed his eyes, holding back tears. The captain of the freighter that had just rescued him from his doomed vessel stood with him, silent, hand on his shoulder, a fellow seaman feeling the gut wrenching pain of the loss. This isn’t the beginning of some lurid novel. This happened a few days ago off Port Canaveral. The Palm Beach police ordered a...

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The Gates Of Hell

Cape Taineron is supposedly where Hades keeps the front door unlocked, and by the time we got there, I was inclined to believe it. The wind went from sporty to stupid in a hurry. Twenty knots, then twenty-five, then...

To Serve and Evict

As the waters closed over the 41 foot Tartan sailboat Spiritus, her captain closed his eyes, holding back tears. The captain of the freighter that had just rescued him from his doomed vessel stood with him, silent, hand on...

Good Read: DORF by Bob Bitchin

This work proves Schroedinger’s Cat Theory: A cat is imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation, the cat being considered (per quantum mechanics)...